Archive: 2008 July 02

Photo: Barbie’s Day Out

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-02T00:47:42Z in Photography, Stock Photos, with these tags: barbie's day out, blue, canon powershot a620, conceptual, death, macro, 8 Comments. 37 words.

Barbie\'s Day Out — a beheaded doll

I spotted this doll’s head on the top of the grate of a storm drain. Didn’t even have to stage it. Great ideas just find me sometimes. :xx:

Canon PowerShot A620, 1/60, F2.8, 7.3mm, ISO50, 2006-10-06T17:31:41-04, 2006-10-06_17h31m41

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Photo: Fatality

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-02T00:42:23Z in Photography, Shop, Stock Photos, with these tags: 4x6-lustre, brown, bugs, death, fatality, fujifilm finepix a360, macro, shallow dof, 5 Comments. 152 words.

Fatality — a dead cockroach

Photo of an American Cockroach, which I found on the floor in our house (we see these pretty often). I hit it a few times with a fly swatter, but then thought to put it on the counter and take a picture of it, with some food and food-related items in the background, plus the fly swatter, to make it more disturbing. On a technicality, he was still alive when I took this photo (moving his legs around a bit), but I didn’t want to hit him anymore so …

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